To the editor: There’s a rising pattern of corporations making merchandise much less user-friendly whereas “enhancing” them technically. Often, that is an try to squeeze out extra revenue.
The promise of streaming’s “the whole lot, in every single place, abruptly” strategy was to make DVRs pointless. However with the huge quantity of content material now on the market, curation is crucial to keep away from being overwhelmed. So far, no streaming field or sensible TV — or app equivalent to YouTube TV — has come near the simplicity and ease of use of TiVo’s interface (“Say farewell to the TiVo field, the system that revolutionized how we watch tv,” Oct. 9). And TiVo’s peanut-shaped distant continues to place all others to disgrace ergonomically.
Columnist Michael Hiltzik’s assertion that “DVRs aren’t wanted for streaming providers” ignores the most effective function of TiVo: fast-forward and reverse on dwell tv recordings. With out that, watching soccer, with its fixed industrial and timeout interruptions, is a distress for me.
I’ve been informed that that is doable with some streamers, however after I tried, I discovered it clunky, unreliable and principally unusable. TiVo simply works. And naturally, skipping commercials is a snap with its triple fast-forward — sorry, CNN and its advertisers. Kudos to Spectrum for protecting our machines going.
Robert Huber, Yorba Linda
